Just back from 3rd Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll Expedition.  Boat is staying for a month there to serve other customers also.

Napoleon Fish - this is the topic of today. Last September, our Captain Mohamed got over 50kg Napoleon Fish.  This time, I had 4 Napoleon Fishes for 4 days straight including 58kg, 55kg, and 35kg x 2.  Last week, our friends from Thailand also caught Napoleon again.  Woops, I almost forgot that I also got my first Napoleon Fish in July expedition in Gaafu Dhaalu.

Appearantly Gaafu Dhaalu and Gaafu Alif Atolls have rich stocks of Napoleon Fishes.  Napoleons are known and popular among divers for their friendly nature while they are predators to many smaller bait fishes that is why they break the ocean surface to attack gigantic topwater lures.  When I saw Napoleon for the  first time when snorkeling, it was hard imagin such predator natures from its cute/funny looking, slow swimming fish.

They are Protected Specie so that we take maximum care of Catch & Release.  It however is fun fish to fight especially those over 50kg that has a lot of power and even speed like GTs.  Those over 50s, I first thought would be GTs but when they appeared on surface near boat, it was green color giants instead of silver GTs.  Many of my GT fishermen friends with over 50kg or even 60kg records landed in the past, it is rarer to have this big Napoleons.  After posted Napoleons' photos in our facebook fan pages, I received a lot of inquiries.  Our services are to target GTs but we get a lot of other fishes like Red Snappers, Groupers, Sharks, Bluefin Trevallies, Yellowfin Tunas, and Napoleon in very occasional, or rather lottery kinds of chance.  Anyway, this very remote Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll (8 hours by boat, 1 hour by air) has a huge stock of untouched and challenged GTs and Napoleon Fishes.  It is expensive to go there as it consumes over 3000 litters of petro for round trip.  It is the reason that not many fishermen reached there thus well protected, unspoiled fishes and ecosystems remained.  So we are planning not to go there all the time but limit to only a few occasions for protecting the area.  However, if you really want to go, let us know.  We will think about it!

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North Ari & Rasdhoo Atolls were the final destinations of this year's tour and first tour in the atolls.  However, due to this year's irregular weather into dry seasons with rough seas, we could not transport immedaitely to our friend's own Rasdhoo Atoll Guesthouse at night upon arrival from Japan by Sri Lanka Airline.  So we bunked in another friend's guesthouse in Hulehumale - airport island on the first night and transport to the Rasdhoo when ocean gets calm enough with Captain's judgement.

Fortunately very next morning, we could go to Rasdhoo and enjoyed 5 day fishing tour in Rasdhoo and North Ari Atolls.  Fishing by 2 Japanese experienced anglers were, to say the least, EXPLOSIVE!

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They scored double over 50kg GTs, and lots of lots of over 40kg & 30kg!  Initially we were not so sure about Northern Ari Atoll because they are quite well fished area by fishing safari (Rashoo is a tiny atoll on the northern tip of Ari Atoll which maybe well kept since so small?!).  Lhaviyani Atoll fishing by Russian customers a couple weeks ago was not quite successful.  BUT, our worries turned out to be very turned up side down by explosive fishing in terms of both number and size.  It takes only 1 hour to reach Rasdhoo Guesthouse by speedboat from Airport which is about the same as some of remote North Male resorts.  Now we think it is a very good area not so far away to explore more!

Use of low budget but very new n' clean guesthouses for fishing package has been proven methods of wonderful fishing with budget in Maldives as well as proven that Maldives is NOT expensive country to go for wonderful fishing.

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First GT Fishing - We really love to encourage those fishermen to try GT Fishing for the first time.  This is very concept that we had in mind when we started our services.  Many of us fishermen have seen those gigantic Giant Trevally in fishing magaizines or internet. Perhaps Pictures on the wall of fishing shop.  We fishing inspired people dream about catching those monsters someday.  However, it is expensive to buy all equipments - Rod/Reel/Line/Leader/Lures/Hooks/SplitRings etc etc all cost around 1500-2000 USD per set.  Lure alone costs over 80 USD!! 

So we offer Free Rental Equipments - not cheap stuff but the best ones from Japan (e.g. Shimano Stella, Twinpower, Ripplefishers, Carpenter etc.).  Beginners can come to Maldives without any fishing gears but just book with us and wait for us to pick up at Jetty.  We will take care of the rest including casting lesson and instruction how to fight with monster GTs.  If you lose lures, then you just pay penalty 20 USD to replace.

Luckily we have served quite a few of those customers for the first try. Many of them are honeymooners.  We have not experienced any charters without catching GTs for all first time beginners since we launched our services.  This is something we are pround of most, much more than expert catching over 50kg - that is also great things and feels good, too.  We do not know how long this record will continue as fishing is nature matter but we will try our very very best to provide such experiences to our customers!

Picked some pics of first time try!

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